1. Preface

   • Rucong Yu
   • Guoxiong Wu

   EditorialNotes 18 July 2008 Pages: 517 - 517

2. Influence of the Tibetan Plateau on the summer climate patterns over Asia in the IAP/LASG SAMIL model

   • Anmin Duan
   • Guoxiong Wu
   • Xiaoyun Liang

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 518 - 528

3. Sensitivity of the Grid-point Atmospheric Model of IAP LASG (GAMIL1.1.0) climate simulations to cloud droplet effective radius and liquid water path

   • Lijuan Li
   • Yuqing Wang
   • Tianjun Zhou

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 529 - 540

4. The wavenumber-frequency characteristics of the tropical waves in an aqua-planet GCM

   • Zaizhi Wang
   • Jiangyu Mao
   • Guoxiong Wu

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 541 - 554

5. Impacts of upper tropospheric cooling upon the late spring drought in East Asia simulated by a regional climate model

   • Xiaoge Xin
   • Zhaoxin Li
   • Tianjun Zhou

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 555 - 562

6. A case study on the role of water vapor from Southwest China in downstream heavy rainfall

   • Yang Pan
   • Rucong Yu
   • Youping Xu

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 563 - 576

7. What kind of initial errors cause the severest prediction uncertainty of El Niño in Zebiak-Cane model

   • Hui Xu
   • Wansuo Duan

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 577 - 584

8. Effect of chlorophyll-a spatial distribution on upper ocean temperature in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific

   • Pengfei Lin
   • Hailong Liu
   • Xuehong Zhang

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 585 - 596

9. Revisiting effect of ocean diapycnal mixing on Atlantic meridional overturning circulation recovery in a freshwater perturbation simulation

   • Lei Yu
   • Yongqi Gao
   • Helge Drange

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 597 - 609

10. Improving the vegetation dynamic simulation in a land surface model by using a statistical-dynamic canopy interception scheme

    • Miaoling Liang
    • Zhenghui Xie

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 610 - 618

11. An updated coupled model for land-atmosphere interaction. Part I: Simulations of physical processes

    • Hongling Zeng
    • Zaizhi Wang
    • Guoxiong Wu

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 619 - 631

12. An updated coupled model for land-atmosphere interaction. Part II: Simulations of biological processes

    • Hongling Zeng
    • Jinjun Ji
    • Guoxiong Wu

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 632 - 640

13. Coupled model simulations of climate changes in the 20th century and beyond

    • Yongqiang Yu
    • Hai Zhi
    • Tianjun Zhou

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 641 - 654

14. A fast version of LASG/IAP climate system model and its 1000-year control integration

    • Tianjun Zhou
    • Bo Wu
    • Bin Wang

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 655 - 672

15. The springtime North Asia cyclone activity index and the Southern Annular Mode

    • Xu Yue
    • Huijun Wang

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 673 - 679

16. A new global four-dimensional variational ocean data assimilation system and its application

    • Juan Liu
    • Bin Wang
    • Yongqiang Yu

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 680 - 691

17. Numerical experiments for Typhoon Dan incorporating AMSU-A retrieved data with 3DVM

    • Ying Zhao
    • Bin Wang

    OriginalPaper 18 July 2008 Pages: 692 - 703